San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-06-29
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Mines.
BY II. RInLN mAGGARp.

| to say dri"~lHh," habit OF thinking seems
tn ne .. ming hold of melville | stood aud
stared AT uos" grim yet fantastic lines Of
warriors sleeping, A. the say ing goes, "uir
! on their SPEARS.
'CuriS,' Islit tn Sir Ilrnr1, 81 am in a
| condition OF pltiabr funk.
| Sir Iiru,, strp,rd his yellow b arr anI
laughed, rs he au-wrreI:
"I'ye heard you make that sort Of remark
| before, Qwtrn in
"WeIi, mrau it now. Do you know, |
| very much douDt II one al H. VIII be- alive
tomorrow ni,ht. We shall b. attacked in
overwhelming force and it is exceedingly
| doubtful if we can mold this place.
even give a good account Of some Of
| them at any rate. Look here QIatcrnain
the business Is a nasty one. and one with
which, property speaking, we ought not to
| be mixed up; but we are in iur it, 50 we
must make tho test of it, Speaking person.
| ally, had rather uc killed fighting than amy
other way, and now that there seems little
chance of my nndng my poor brother, il
makes the idea easier to me. l}Ut fortune
laro.s the brave, and we may succeed
Ans way, the SLAUGHTER will be awful AMI as
we have a rrprrt ii"n To keep up, We shall
have to be in the thick Of it,
Sir Henry mlIo this last remark in .
muurnful voice. but there was CLEAN in his
eye which bell Il It. | have 4 sort of an idea
that Sir ll"mr, Curtis actually likes lighting.
After this we went ami sept for Il couple
of hours.
just about dawn we were awakened by
IniadOOS, who came H. say that great artiyr
ty was to be- observed in Loo, and that par
ties of the kim : SkirmishJrS were Griving-in
our vcdctteS
We got up and dressed ourselves for the
fray, each putting on our Chaiu-armOr shirt.
for which at the present iuncture we felt
exceedingly thanaful. Sir Henry went the
whole hog about the matter, and dressed
himself like native warrior. "When you
are in KukumaIand do as the Kukuanas
do" he remarked. as he drew the shining
steel over his broad shoulders which it fitted
like glove. Nrr did he stop tn re. At his
Request lmfa Ipo' had provided him with 4
complete set of war uniform. Round his
throat he fastened the lcOparl-SFin cloak OF
commanding oflncr ON his brOwS he bound
the plume Of black ostrich feathers, worn
only by generals Of high rank, and round his
center Il magnificent mOOcha of white OK
tails A pair of sandals. egrt of goats
hair, q heavy blttle.av with a rhinOccrDS-
horn hani!c, Il round iron shield. covered
with white UX-hide, and the regulation num-
Der of tnlllS, or throwing knives, made up
his equipments, to which. however, he AL.
dcd his revolver. The dr IS was no doubt, y
savage one, but am bound to say never
saw IA finer sight than Sir Henry Curtis pre-.
scented in this gui,e. II Showed off ms mag
niicCnt p"yS.QI' to the greatest advantage,
and when lgmuSi arrived presently, array ed
in similar costume | Thought to myself that
never before saw two such splendid men.
As 70: GOOd and myself the chain armor
did no, suit us nearly 50 well. To begin
with, Cool insisted upon keeping on his
trousers, and a stout, Snort gentleman with
an clcgIaS., and one-haIl of his tacc shaved
arraycd in Il mail shirt carefully tucked into
very srrdy pair of cOrIurOyS, looks more
striking than imposing A, for myself, my
chain shirt being too biz for M. | put ii on
over all my r'oIhrE, which eau, d il to bulge
| out in somewhat UnguiHly fashion. | dis
Card,' my trousers, huWpYpT, determined t.
20 into battle with bare les, in order to be
thu lighter in ease it became necessary to
retire qnicGY, returning only my veldt
SChOOuI. THIS, spear, a shield, which J
did not know how to Use. couple of tOllaS
revolver and huge plume which
pinned INTO the top OF my ShOOtlng-hat IT
order 10 eve Il DIoo THIRSTY lniSh to my APP
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